Apple megastore opens at Grand Central Station

Apple is infamous for the control it exercises over its image — especially its retail stores. Customers often know Apple stores at a glance, since the company’s storefronts often employ the same stark, simple lines as its products while also reflecting the character of their surroundings.

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People enter the newest Apple Store, Dec. 9, 2011, at New York's Grand Central Station.

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An Apple employee demonstrates a computer to customer Sebastian Duco of France.

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Apple employees greet customers at the opening.

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An Apple Inc. employee at the "Genius Bar" works with a customer during the opening of the new Grand Central Station location in New York. Samsung Electronics Co. will start selling its rival to Apple Inc.'s iPad 2 in Australian stores before Christmas after the country's highest court denied the U.S. company's bid to maintain a ban on Samsung Galaxy tablets.

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Customers buy Apple products inside the newest Apple Store.

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Apple employees gather at the entrance to the Apple Store at Grand Central Terminal during a media preview Dec. 7 in New York. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business in Grand Central Terminal opened Dec. 9.

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An Apple employee polishes a display Dec. 7.

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Apple employees gather during the media preview.

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Apple “Genius Bar” employees wait to meet the media on Dec. 7.

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Black curtains obscure the Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal in New York on Dec. 6, 2011.

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The Grand Central store, which opens Dec. 9, has two Genius Bars for those seeking advice on Apple products. The store will have more than 300 employees and is just one of Apple's 361 stores.

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A member of the media gets a demonstration of the iPad during a media preview at the new Apple retail location in Grand Central Terminal in New York Dec. 7.

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AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless operator, said smartphone sales in the fourth quarter are likely to hit a record, driven by devices such as Apple iPhone.

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Apple's store in the Pudong District was the second Apple Store to open in China, according to China Daily. The store, featuring a 40-foot cylinder made of glass, has a wide variety of Apple products, China Daily reports.

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Pedestrians walk past an Apple Store in San Francisco in January 2011. Apple has three stores in the city.

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Customers look at the Apple iPad 2 on display at an Apple Store in San Francisco.

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An iPad 2 is shown in an Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany.

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A worker cleans up the interior part near an Apple logo at Hong Kong's only Apple Store.

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Cars pass underneath the store in Hong Kong.

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A customer takes a photo of the Apple flagship on Fifth Avenue while it's being renovated in New York in August. The Apple Store has the largest staff of any of company's stores, Apple says. It's open 24 hours a day every day of the year.

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Visitors and customers can enter the Fifth Avenue store through this 32-foot glass cube.

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Workers walk by the latest Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on Sept. 19. It is Apple's third store in Shanghai and the fifth overall in China. The new store is the largest Apple retail store in the country.

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Employees gather at an Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany.

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Customers browse at an Apple retail store in central London in August.

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Customers visit an Apple store in Carugate, near Milan, in August.

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A customer walks past a display of Apple merchandise at the New York City flagship Apple store in New York.

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The Apple Store at the Upper West Side location in New York is shown. The store, which opened in November 2009, features an all-glass roof and a 45-foot Genius Bar.

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Customers shop inside Apple's Sanlitun retail store in Beijing in May.

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The Apple Store in Sydney was Apple's first to open in Australia when it welcomed customers in 2008.

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Apple iPod nanos are shown at an Apple Store in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011.

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This Apple Store in Paris once was home to a bank. The store opened in July 2010.

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The Apple Store in Munich became the tech giant's first store in Germany when it opened in 2008.

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An Apple Store in Shanghai is shown.

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A picture of an Apple Store in Beijing is shown.

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The Apple store in Covent Garden, U.K., is one of the biggest Apple Stores in the world. The store became Apple's 300th store when it opened in August 2010, according to the BBC.

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Apple store employees hand out bottled water to customers waiting in line outside an Apple store to purchase the company's new tablet iPad 2 before the shop opens to begin sales in Tokyo in April.

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Apple megastore opens at Grand Central Station

Apple is infamous for the control it exercises over its image — especially its retail stores. Customers often know Apple stores at a glance, since the company’s storefronts often employ the same stark, simple lines as its products while also reflecting the character of their surroundings.

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